Published January 1985
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Wet channel inspection systems for CANDU nuclear reactors CIGAR and CIGARette
Description
This paper describes and compares the operation of the CIGAR and CIGARette wet channel inspection systems that have been developed by Ontario Hydro for CANDU nuclear reactor pressure tubes. Initially, the highly sophisticated, automated CIGAR (Channel Inspection and Gauging Apparatus for Reactors) is described. When the hydride blistering problem was discovered in Pickering NGS Units 1 and 2 in late 1983, CIGAR was not operational, so a less automated, slower system called CIGARette was rapidly designed and built. The operation and some problems experienced with CIGARette are also described
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- NDT in Canada - the next 20 years
- Imprint Pagination
- 473 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 178-193.
- Report number
- AECL--8707
Conference
- Title
- 5. Canadian conference on nondestructive testing.
- Dates
- 28-31 Oct 1984.
- Place
- Toronto, ON (Canada).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 22069572
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- DISPLACEMENT GAGES; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; PICKERING-1 REACTOR; PRESSURE TUBES; ULTRASONIC TESTING
- Descriptors DEC
- ACOUSTIC TESTING; CANDU TYPE REACTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TESTING; HEAVY WATER COOLED REACTORS; HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTORS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NATURAL URANIUM REACTORS; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; PHWR TYPE REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS; REACTORS; TESTING; THERMAL REACTORS; TUBES